Cover for cooking vessels.



No. 637,643. Patented Nov. 2?, I899.

F. E. MORRISON.

COVER FOR COOKING \(ESSELS.

(Application Med Jan. 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NrrnD STATES PATENT FFTCE.

FLOYD E. MORRISON, OF ELK LICK, PENNSYLVANIA.

COVER FOR COOKING VESSELS SPEGIFiCATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 637,643, dated November 21', 1899.

Application filed January 26, 1899. serial No. 703,470. (No model.)

To uZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLOYD E. MORRISON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Elk Lick, in the county of Somerset and State ofPennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Cover for Cooking Vessels,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in covers for cooking pots andvessels; and one object thereof is to provide an improved appliance forfirmly locking the cover in place on the vessel to which it may beapplied, such fastening appliance being readily adjustable intoengagement with the vessel and easily manipulated without the handstouching the vessel or the cover to release the fastener from the vesseland permit the removal of the cover.

A further object is to provide an improved cover adapted to permitliquid to be drained from the vessel Without escape of the" solid matteror food contained therein, and the ports by which the draining of theliquid is effected may be readily closed to retain steam Within thevessel for the purpose of expeditiously cooking the food.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel constructionand (arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

To enable others to understand the inven tion, it is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of acover with my improved fastener appliedthereto.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on a plane centrallythrough the fastener appliance. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view ofthe fastener and the locking contrivance therefor, showing the partsseparated one from the other. Fig. 4D is a perspective view of thecover, illustrating another style of locking device for thefastener-bail.-

Like numerals of reference denote like and corresponding parts in eachof the several figures of the drawings.

The cover-1 0 of my improvement is stamped or struck up in a singlepiece of sheet metal in substantially the disk form represented in thedrawings, and this cover is of a diameter proper to fit upon the edge ofan ordinary cooking pot or vessel. This sheet-metal cover is'providedwith a plurality of drain-ports ar-' ranged in multiple series, asindicated at 11, and said ports are adapted to be opened and closed byan adjustable valve-plate 12. This valve-plate has a plurality ofopenings 13 arranged therein similarly to the ports 11 in the cover, andsaid valve-plate is slidably c'onfined on the cover in suitableguideways 14, whereby the plate may be adjusted to bring its openingscoincidently with the ports of the cover, or it may be moved for theopen ings 13 therein to lie opposite imperforate por tions of the cover,so as to close the ports 11. This valve-plate is provided with a handle15 for its convenient manipulation, and the ad- 3' ustment of thevalve-plate to a position where its openings register with the ports ofthe cover permits steam to escape from the cooking vessel and allows thevessel to be tilted or turned upon one side for the purpose of drainingWater and liquids from the vessel without escape of the solid contentsor food in said vessel.

The cover constructed as herein indicated is especially serviceable whenit is desired to drain liquid from the food in the cooking vessel, andto prevent separation of the cover from the vessel when the latter istilted I provide a novel fastening appliance by which the cover isclamped firmly upon the vessel, such fastening appliance being readilymanipulated to attach the cover to the vessel or remove it therefromwithout putting the operator to the inconvenience of touching either thecover or the vessel. H

For the attachment of the fastener to the cover two sets of guides 16 17are provided on the cover. These guides are arranged to receive therespective members or bails of the fastener, and each guide may consistof a loop, clip, or lips attached to the cover or made disposed on thecover for the catch-hooks thereof to engage with the vessel atdiametrically opposite sides of the latter. Each member or bail is bent,preferably, from'a single bails of the fastener are adapted to be movedin opposite directions across the cover when the hooks thereof are to bereleased from engagement with the vessel; but by drawing the bailsinwardly toward each other the catchhooks engage with the sides or lipof the cooking vessel, as will be readily understood.

To hold the fastener-bails securely in place when engaged with a vesseland to provide for the use of the cover on vessels which may vary indiameter within certain'limits, I provide a locking device which isconnected with one fastener-bail. and has interlocking engagement withthe other fastener-bail, said locking device being itself yieldable orresilient to remain in engagement with that member or hail of thefastener with which it is adjustablyponnected. In Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawings this locking device is represented as embodied ina spring-bail 23,

which is bent from a single piece of wire to formthe side bars 24, theloops or' eyes 26, and the spring-arms 27. In the operation of bendingthe wire to form the elastic locking bail the side bars thereof areformed with an gular bends 25 to produce a series of ratchetteeth, andthese teeth of the two side bars of said bail are arranged to register,so that a cross-bar 20 of one fastener-bail may properly engage withcorresponding ratchet-teeth of the side bars of the locking-bail. Inassembling the locking-bail operatively to the members or bails of thefastener the springarms 27 of the locking-bail are slipped around thecross-bar 20 of one of the fastener-bails-- The spring-arms as, forinstance, the bail 1 9. 27 of the locking-bail are arranged to press orbear against the cover 10, whilethe loops or eyes 26 of the locking-bailengage loosely with the cross-bar 20 of the fastener-bail 18, wherebythe'arms 2O exert spring action .or tension against the ratchetedlocking-bail to normally force the latter in an upward direc tion. Theratchet-bars of the locking-bail extend beneath the cross-bar 20 of thefastener-bail 19, and as the locking-bail is nor mally lifted by theaction of the spring-arms r the catch-hooks thereof from the vessel.

.27 said locking-bail has its ratcheted bars locking-bail 25 slides withthe fastener-bail 19 in its traveling adj ustment, and the springarms'27 of said locking-bail slide across the top ofthe cover, so as toalways exert the desired action on the locking-bail for holding theratchet-bars of said locking-bail in engagement with the otherfastener-bail 19.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have represented another embodiment of myinvention,

in which the cover and the fastener-bails are' similar in constructionto the devices shown by Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive; but said Fig. 4:represents a modified construction of the lockingbail, whichisoperatively connected to one fastener member and has yielding frictionalcontact with the other fastener member in order to hold the'twomembersof the fastener with the cross-bar of one fastener-baillS, and

the side bars of this locking-bail are curved to give the sinuous shapethereto, as at 30.

The free end of the locking-bail 28 rests upon the cover 10, while theother end of said'locking-bail is attached loosely to the fastenerbail18 to travel therewith; The curved side bars of the locking-bail pressor bear against the cross-bar of the fastener-bail l9, and thislocking-bail is yieldable or elastic forthe fas-' tener-bail 19 to ridethereon,whereby the reaction of the elastic bail 28 exerts sufficientfrictional pressure against the bail 19 to hold 1 the latter in itsadjusted position.

In the use of the fastener shown by Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, theratchet-like angular bends of the locking-bail allow the fastener ibails to be drawn inward freely when applying the cover to a vessel,because the inclined sides of the teeth will ride. easily under thecross-bar of the fastener-bail 18; but outward movement of thefastener-bails in a direction to release the cover will be overcome bythe bar 20 of thebail18 engaging with the abrupt sides of theratchet-teeth on the locking-bail.

Changes may be made'in the form of some of the parts while theiressential features are retained and the spirit of the inventionembodied. Hence I do not desire to be limited to the precise form of allthe parts as shown, reserving the right to vary therefrom. What-I claimis- 1. A cover-fastener consisting of duplicate adjustablefastener-slides, and a yieldable locking device connected with onefastenerslide to travel therewith and normally held under spring tensionin adjustable engagement with the other fastener-slide said fastenerbeing carried. by and guided on the cover, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a cover and guides thereon, of fastener-bailsslidably fitted in the guides of said cover and provided with means forengaging with a vessel, and an elastic locking-bail connected with onefas tenor-bail to travel therewith and having enger-hold and at itsouter end with catches, and a ratchet-like locking-bail fitted beneathone of the fastener-bails and loosely connected with the otherfastener-bail, said locking-bail having spring-arms which rest upon thecover and hold the ratcheted locking-bail in firm engagement with onefastener-bail, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

I FLOYD E. MORRISON.

Witnesses:

OH. TAYLOR, FRANK NAGRELS.

